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Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Loyal Wreckies, I am positively giddy to share one of my favorite collections of wrecks with you today. You see, with "birthday" arguably being the second most common word written on cakes these days ("happy" being the first) I'm always amazed when Wreckerators spell it wrong. Which means I'm amazed a LOT.

Then I started wondering: Just how many ways can you accidentally misspell "birthday?"

Thus began my journey. And so far, it's had some surprising destinations, lemme tell ya.

First, there's the expected stuff:

Ah, the ol' two letter switcharoo. Probably the most common misspelling out there.

Ok, so they forgot the 'H.' Also extremely common. Next!

They forgot the 'R'? Ok, now I'm curious: Do you think we can find cakes missing every letter in the word "birthday"?

No?

Aw, c'mon, you doubting Thomases. This'll be fun.

Do I hear a missed 'T'?

Woohoo!

The "th20" in the upper corner is like the dyslexic cherry top on.

Now how about a missed 'H'?

Even better!

A missed 'D'?

Aww, yeeeeah. Now we're cookin'.

Let's get a little crazy. You think anyone's ever missed the 'Y'?

"Y" not?

Ok, but surely - SURELY - no one has ever forgotten to write the 'B' in 'birthday', right?

Right?

Right?

(Are you guys as excited about this as I am?)

Drum roll, please!

Ta-da!

Now that's what I'm TALKIN' 'bout.(Also, check out the white roses masquerading as clouds. Impostors!)

Believe it or not, the only letter I've yet to see missed entirely is the 'I.' [UPDATE: Oh, and the 'A'. Oops. Sorry!] HOWEVER, I have seen this:

Poor Aaron.

And this:

That's some good clean fun, right there.

And would you believe we're just getting started? That's right, it's allll downhill from here. You'll have to tune in tomorrow, though, because John starts getting this funny little eye twitch every time I post more than half a dozen Wrecks at a time, and right now they're kind of bulging out in a way that simply can NOT be healthy. (His eyes, that is - not the wrecks. [Although, truth be told, some of them are kind of bulgy.])

So tomorrow, then. Be there, or be without amazingly hilarious misspelling of "birthday." And then where will you be?

"Hello. My office wants to get a cake to celebrate Earth Day. Could you do something with a nice blue sky and clouds? Balloons ... sure that would be festive. Just write on it 'Happy Earth Day'. Right, 'Earth Day'. I'll pick it up at 11. Thanks."

Happy Bathday is such a beautiful cake. Maybe they ARE celebrating the day the get clean, you know, like in the good old days when people got married in June traditionally because that is when they would bathe? or maybe they're water conservationists with friends who really want to encourage baths because of their, um, odor.

meanwhile, I don't see Aaron on that cake. Maybe they say he's the best daddy "around." And it looks like there's secrets messages written in the icing along the edges....

Bethday counts for a missing I. Just because they used a vowel does not give them credit for the WRONG vowel. and the one with the missing h was also missing t. "Birday" maybe they like birdwatching? bird hunting? bird eating?

Just GREAT.Here I *got up* after a night of not REALLY sleeping at ALL because of hearing odd & scary sounds and feeling spooked and edgy and in a foggy-headed, sleep-deprived mode RIGHT out of the gate*takes deep breath* ...and now THIS.All I can say is , So THIS is the kind of DAY it's going to be, RIGHT?What I see on the last cake is "UR THE BEST ARUW"---which could be taken so many ways, like in a sarcastic tone, as though what they MEANT to say was: ("SO you think)you are the best, are you?"--which isn't even grammatically correct...so they couldn't POSSIBLY have meant that! There are moisture droplets inside the cover of the "Bathday" cake.Coincidence? I think not. And THAT is a scary thought, right there.On the "th20" cake, I have been wondering if that might have been intended to be the name "Thao." Why the heck NOT?!!!~~~~~~My personal fave:"dyslexic cherry top on."And that wasn't even ON a cake!!THAT is the way YOU spelled"making my day"! So, thanks!

Nanny said..."How in the world could you leave off the B especially since there is SPACE for it????"*****I don't know why, but this really got me giggling uncontrollably (I have my not-enough-sleep excuse, mind you).So forgive me (chuckle), but doesn't any cake (snort) start out with SPACE first... and, er, the letters put on accordingly?

I think the "WV" notes are when people read the 'words' generated by the 'word verication' part of their comment (the little nonsense word you have to input to make sure you're not a bot), and come up with clever definitions for them, usually relevant to their comment or to the post.

@DancingSmartyPants - It stands for word verification. Google's word verification is usually something that's not a real word, but is pronounceable as such, so people like to make up definitions for the fun ones.

I rather like Bethday. I think I shall have to start celebrating this... (my name is Beth). Then I also got to thinking, one could add a "C" to the one with the missing R, and end up with Happy Bitchday. Yup, that would be good, too.

On the happy birday diane cake, one of the balloon strings does not even lead to its balloon. That whole cake just screams "I don't. Give. A crap." Try a little harder! Use a capital letter for a proper name!

*Sigh* That's bad. This last Saturday I ran to our local Albertson's bakery to grab a cake for my daughter's 8th birthday. (I know I'm lame, but we've been painting the house, etc..blah blah) So, picked up a premade cake and asked if they'd pipe, "YOU'RE 8!" on it.I got back YOUR 8...I looked at the cake and then looked at the woman and said "Are YOU sure you want me to take this?" She looked at me as if I was daft. So, I told her she used the wrong YOUR...blank stare. You need a comma and re... OH Light Bulb moment.Shaunery

OY! Whether that cake was for Aaron or Arun, I think the decorator started out sober(so pretty around the edges, no?)and had repeatedly hit the hard stuff by the time they got to the writing bit. Sheesh!Kathy

I can't tell you how many times I've heard it pronounced "birthay" - especially by the host of a local children's show that ran when I was a kid, who every morning would read a list of names and then wish them all a "Happy Birthay!"

@The Boob Nazi....I just had to laugh at your post. You may have checked it for misspelled words, but you still missed a WRONG word! You didn't "doubled checked" your post, you "double checked" it! Only one D for Double! Thanks for the laugh! :)

The butterfly cake would have been a beautiful cake if it hadn't been for the misspelling. Geez!!! I think some of these bakers might want to consider a career change, but then who would mess up cakes for our amusement?

I'm really starting to think some of these wrecks are a pro-am collaboration. Some are so beautifully decorated but have truly dreadful writing that I think (I hope) that someone bought them from the case along with a tube of do-it-yourself piping and went at it. I can't believe even Walmart (aka the Angry Bear/Mickey cake of yesterday) would allow someone that untalented behind the bakery counter. I would seriously question their sanitary practices.

Is it just me, or do misspelled cakes also make me wonder if they forgot... I dunno, to wash their hands or add eggs to the batter, or either, neither, both, something else 'forgotten', etc... Know what I'm saying here? It's seems more than trivial and makes me question the whole thing.While there are drugs I can take for this sort of paranoia, I choose to come here, instead. ;)Validation?... Anyone? BWAAAAAAHAHAHAHA!

When you mentioned at the top of the post you would try to find cakes with every letter missing, I thought you certainly couldn't find a missing B! I was pleasantly shocked that you actually did! As always, thanks for the laughs!

To be completely fair the "Happy irthday" one DOES have the "B" it's just flipped over and on top of the yellow balloon on the left of the cake. Though, how they did that I'm just not quite sure.Anybody?

The "Happy Brithday" had me doubled over in laughter-- I kept thinking it was a mis-spelling of a "bris" (ie when Jewish boys get "snipped" the 8th day after they are born). The kid mightn't be so happy about it, but I guess he's not yet eating cake...

WV: mallitt: someone who vowed taking a mallet to spelling errors, and got that wrong too...

Bear in mind that until rather recently, bathing was a twice-a-year occurance for most people, so perhaps that last cake is a harkening-back to a simpler time, when bathing actually was a celebration-worthy occasion.

Mir said... "... misspelled cakes make me wonder if they forgot...to wash their hands or add eggs to the batter, or either, neither, both, something else... Validation?... Anyone?"~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Yeah. OH,YEAH...Consider yourself validated (while I consider myself flabbergasted). It's sort of like when you have to use a pub-yick bathroom, and THERE THEY ARE (!!!) on the wall: ACTUAL signs suggesting: "EMPLOYEES MUST WASH HANDS AFTER USING THE FACILITIES."Classy, huh??? I swear, by the looks of some of this swill, it's truly a dazzling wonder that some of these places can manage to stay in business at all.(WHERE in blazes do they FIND these "decorators," Under rocks???)The UP side of all of this is that we have Cake Wrecks for our viewing pleasure!!!Wreck on, indeed!!!=^~.~^=

Oh now I really and truly think I should NOT order my birthday cake lol. I still have two more weeks to go so I may be better off baking my own. That butterfly cake looks like one of the butterflies ate the T and the others are circling around the other letters. Happy Bathday.. boy I hope that wasn't a hint to the persons hygiene or lack thereof. Lovely to see the lack of spell checkers at the bakery.

For my son's 2nd birthday I ordered him a cake that was to say "Happy Terrible Twos Christian" and instead it just said "Terrible 2's Christian." Boy was I mad and that damn cake has cursed him and those terrible "2's" have last a year and a half!

You know, out of all the misspellings I've seen on Cakewrecks, "th20" is probably my favorite. It's simple charm just strikes me as being even better than "Happy Falker Satherhood."

I mean, you HAVE to explain "Falker Satherhood" with drugs. There's just no other way. And drugs are sort of a boring explanation. But "th20" could be caused by anything, and it's fun imagining the possibilities.

Mikewind: that was my thought too, except for one minor "technicality"... Jewish girls don't get circumcised! So it was either a mis-spelling of "birthday" that gets snickers from Jewish readers, or is even worse than we thought, and poor Liam's losing more than just his foreskin...

OMG, Jen I have NEVER laughed harder than at your comment that the "th20" was like "the dyslexic cherry on top". BWAHAHAHA! I could not figure it out - I was wondering if it was something to do with water (H2O?) . . . and then I read your comment . . . and burst into uncontrollable laughter. Thanks a million - my abs really needed a workout like that!-Candice

The first cake was mine from last year and yes my name is LIA. The little heart over the I though slayed me. My mother was furious when she picked up the cake but my father said I would love it being misspelled...and he was right!

And high five to the other LIA out there!

And tomorrow is my birthday and we are having ice cream cake with no writing!

Nessie said..."First, the "dyslexic cherry on top," and then the missing "B." I think I just herniated my diaphragm"=========================Heh heh... In the original post, it actually reads: "dyslexic cherry top on."Good luck with your diaphragm, dear.I hope I didn't just make it worse, but I didn't want you to miss out on the genius afoot there.

Sometimes I think these cakes are from foreign lands where English is not their first language and they are trying to spell phonetically and their accent gets in the way. Really...to test this theory go back and read the cakes out loud. See?

Ok, I don't agree with that last one being on Cake Wrecks. At first, I couldn't even figure out where the mistake was, and then I saw that it was possible to intrepret it as saying "Happy Bathday" but when I look at that, I can very clearly see the corner of the cursive "r". It looks to me simply that the I and r were piped too close together and the I wasn't dotted. But that's spelled right. Look at how it's piped. That's not how you do an A. That's very clearly an I and an R.

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